The sea and the sacred in Japan : aspects of maritime religion

Summary: "The Sea and the Sacred in Japan is the first book to focus on the role of the sea in Japanese religions. While many leading Shinto deities tend to be understood today as unrelated to the sea, and mountains are considered the privileged sites of sacredness, this book provides new ways to understand Japanese religious culture and history. Scholars from North America, Japan and Europe explore the sea and the sacred in relation to history, culture, politics, geography, worldviews and cosmology, space and borders, and ritual practices and doctrines. Examples include Japanese indigenous conceptualizations of the sea from the Middle Ages to the 20th century; ancient sea myths and rituals; sea deities and sea cults; the role of the sea in Buddhist cosmology; and the international dimension of Japanese Buddhism and its maritime imaginary."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Record details

ISBN: 9781350147645
ISBN: 9781350062856
ISBN: 1350147648
ISBN: 1350062855
ISBN: 9781350062870
ISBN: 9781350062863
ISBN: 1350062871
ISBN: 1350062863
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2018]
Copyright: �2018

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString.july.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-253) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The sea in the history of Japanese religions / Fabio Rambelli -- Cults and culture of the sea : historical and geographical perspectives / Allan G. Grapard -- Imperial sea magic? : the sea Kami and the great tasting (daij�osai) at the early Yamato court / Mark Teeuwen -- The sea and food offerings for the Kami (shinsen) / Sat�o Masato -- Taming the plague demons : border islanders and the ritual defense of Japan / Jane Alaszewska -- Island of many names, island of no name : taboo and the mysteries of Okinoshima / Lindsey E. De Witt -- Musical instruments for the sea-God Ebisu : the mythological system of Miho shrine and its performative power / �Ouchi Fumi -- An empress at sea : sea deities and divine union in the legends of empress Jing�u / Emily B. Simpson -- Frogs looking beyond a pond : Shinra Myojin in the "East Asian Mediterranean'' network / Sujung Kim -- Hachiman worship among Japanese pirates (wako) of the medieval period : a preliminary survey / Bernhard Scheid -- Shugend�o and the sea / Gaynor Sekimori -- Buddhas from across the sea : the transmission of Buddhism in ancient and medieval temple narratives (engi) / Abe Yasur�o -- Lands and people drifting ashore : distorted conceptions of Japan's place in the world according to medieval and early modern Japanese myths / It�o Satoshi -- Buddhist Japan and the global ocean / D. Max Moerman -- The world was born from the sea : reading the origin of heaven and earth in the Ruij�u jingi hongen / Kanazawa Hideyuki -- Orikuchi Shinobu and the sea as religious topos : Marebito and Musubi no kami / Sait�o Hideki -- Sea theologies : elements for a conceptualization of maritime religiosity in Japan / Fabio Rambelli.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.